Someone I know who's a photographer has just made a film about the way that the Police are now harassing journalists and photographers on demonstrations. It's compulsive viewing and a cracking good film.

It think the path that we seem to be on, at the moment, towards a Police state where news is, 'managed', journalists are controlled and 'embedded ( Read more... )

I guess one very salient point that I only lightly touched on in the last post was how hard I’ve worked this week. If you’re thinking of going into business for yourself, my advice to you would be: however hard you think it’ll be, it’ll be much harder ( Read more... )

I’m feeling pretty good right now, in contrast to last weekend when I was feeling pretty low, desperate and depressed.

I’ve been working hard this week and my CV has been tidied up and posted to Monster and all the normal suspects. I’ve also done loads of work on my online presence and my website, (albeit on a freelancer community site) is now ( Read more... )

In addition to all the hassle that I had today, I’m feeling generally low and a bit depressed right now.

Life feels pretty tough and I’m really finding it hard to keep my optimism going at times. It really feels like everything is mounting up and I’m beginning to feel a bit desperate.

Next Friday, my travelcard runs out and I don’t have the money ( Read more... )

Further to the last post, If anyone has creative, design or photographic work that they’d like done for them personally, (even if it’s only a flyer or something like that) let me know because, at the moment, I’m pretty much twiddling my thumbs.

I’m quite happy to do the work quite cheaply, (read: very cheaply) partly because I need to boost my ( Read more... )

Shortly before BiCon happened I finished working with the MS Society as their Print Procurement Manager.

It’s a long boring tale, but suffice to say that I queried costs, (being signed off by the management) once too often for my own good which is somewhat ironic, since they brought me in to their reduce publicity costs ( Read more... )

If anyone's online right now, and know a bit about Microserf™ Excel can they tell me what this means as a formula < =D12/5*G12 >

Basically i'm trying to change a spreadsheet around a little and I'm fairly sure that this relates to dividing and multiplying but, like WTF!

< hopeful look >

According to today’s Guardian newspaper, the Greek residents of the island of Lesbos who recently went to court to attempt to stop women’s groups around the world from using the word, ‘lesbian’ have lost their case.

Σύντροφος κακής τύχης!, (that’s ‘Bad luck mate!’ in case your Greek is a bit weakIt was alleged that use of the word insulted their ( Read more... )

I’ve just watched a video of people dancing. To be completely correct this is Matt Harding’s, ‘Happy People Dancing on Planet Earth’ video which is making it’s rounds on the web at the moment.

It’s true that this film is very Californian, very kitsch and quite fluffy; it’s also true of course that as a British person, it’s very easy to be cynical ( Read more... )

Yesterday it was my birthday. I think it was one of the best birthday days ever.

After getting some brilliant presents, I went to Sainsburys in Camden to pick up some last minute shopping for the ‘open house’ party we were having from 11.00am onwards. This all went well, (I got everything I needed) and I got some school vouchers at the till which ( Read more... )